Showing posts with label Spring Break. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring Break. Show all posts

11 March

Heaps O' Snow With a Side of Guilt


We were supposed to have dinner with Katie Sevigny and her family tonight, in town. Instead, we are still in Girdwood taking advantage of the incredible Spring Break snow. Gus and I went into town after the highway avalanche was cleared and instead of me spending the time finishing up my Transformed Treasures, working in the studio making more pieces for Katie’s Gallery, we picked up Gus’ best buddy also named Katie and high tailed it back to Girdwood for a couple more days of skiing! Daddy-O got the day off from the Mountain Learning Center and we all had a family ski day. I’m feeling a tad bit guilty, not only because we are missing Katie’s dinner BUT she was also working and selling the heck out of my work at her Gallery while I was on the mountain. At one point (as we agreed) she called me on my cell phone because one of her customers had some questions on one of my sculptures –which I gladly was able to answer WHILE I WAS RIDING UP THE CHAIRLIFT –I swear I felt like I was in a bad cell phone commercial! Thank you Katie for working hard to sell my work while I’ve been playing and I promise we’ll let you make us your homemade enchiladas again SOON and I also promise to get you some more of my work to sell!


Gus and his best buddy Katie stand in front of the debris trail that the Max's Mountain avalanche left. Pieces of a shed are in the brush behind the kids. The slide took out several resort storage sheds, unused snowboard terrain park equipment stopping in the upper level parking lot. The resort had large front end loaders cleaning up the snow and debris today. The good news is that the slide wasn't near any of the main runs or commonly used public areas.

07 March

Day 2 Spring Break in Girdwood, Alaska


Crazy beautiful, blue-bird day! The weather is a complete 180 from yesterday! This is the view from our front deck. We can hear people hootin' and a hollerin' having FUN on the Mountain in all of the new snow!

No lessons today and absolutely NO papers for Daddy-O to grade this week! He's on the Mountain with his offspring having a little mini-me, dude time today.

Checked out a couple movies at the Scott and Wesley Gerrish Girdwood Library. The new location opened here a couple years ago, it used to be located in the Girdwood Elementary school. Isn't it a lovely building? On the menu tonight is homemade chili that's is slow cooking on the stove. Gus and I have ours over spaghetti noodles, Daddy-O thinks that's a bit weird but we love it!

06 March

Day 1 Spring Break in Girdwood, Alaska



There will be a delay this morning in the opening of the Mountain due to the snow load. The Alyeska Ski Report is announcing 3' feet of un-skied snow at the top for a total of 585 inches so far this season! Yeah Baby, that's right it's Spring Break in ALASKA!

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Postscript;

I’m only posting this because of it’s timely topic… I didn’t get a letter of rejection, this one was e-mailed to me yesterday. My first "Rejection E-mail" from the Fairbanks Airport project I applied for on January 4. Somehow an e-mail doesn't seem as bad, not as tangible as a letter coming in the mail with all of the anxiety of opening and reading the bad news. Getting a "Rejection E-mail" makes it easy to just hit delete! BTW the rejection e-mail didn’t throw me into a funk –how could it with the start of Spring Break and all of this FRESH snow?!

"CaFÉ login: cshake

Cindy Shake:

Dear Artist,

Thank you for your application and your interest in the Fairbanks Airport project. The jury viewed many exciting and innovative applications, and found the online and in-person CaFE process easy even though it was a first for ASCA.

I am sorry to inform you that the Public Art Selection Committee did not choose your application for further development. I hope you will continue to visit our website www.eed.state.ak.us/aksca and www.callforentry.org for future artist opportunity announcements.

Sincerely, Andrea Noble

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